by Juanita | Sep 4, 2026 | Customization, George's Furniture, Georges Difference, Tables
Looking for a custom Amish solid wood dining table in Lancaster County, PA? Georges Furniture handcrafts heirloom-quality hardwood dining tables in walnut, maple, oak, and cherry. Each table is built by skilled craftsmen for your room size, seating needs, wood preference, and style.
How to Choose the Right Size for a Custom Amish Dining Table
Before you order a handmade Amish hardwood dining table, measure your dining room to make sure your custom table fits comfortably for daily meals, family gatherings, holidays, and special occasions.
Dining Room Measuring Tools for Custom Table Sizing
- Tape measure
- Notepad and pen
- Masking tape or newspaper (optional)
- Helper (optional)
Measure Your Dining Room for a Handmade Amish Dining Table
1. Measure Dining Room – Length and Width
Measure the room’s length and width, including alcoves, bay windows, built-ins, and walkways that affect the custom dining table layout.
2. Table Clearance – Allow 36 Inches of Dining
For comfortable seating, allow at least 36 inches between the dining table edge and walls, cabinets, sideboards, or nearby furniture.
- Side clearance: table edge to wall or furniture.
- End clearance: table end to wall or furniture.
3. Table Dimensions – Find the Best Custom Dining Table Dimensions
Use your room measurements and clearance needs to calculate the largest solid wood dining table that still feels open, balanced, and easy to use:
- For a rectangular table, subtract 6 feet (72 inches) from both the room length and width to get the maximum table dimensions.
- For a round table, subtract 6 feet from the room’s smallest dimension to determine the maximum table diameter.
4. Table Seating Capacity Guide
Choose a dining table size that supports the number of people you host most often, whether you need a rectangular extension table, round dining table, or larger family gathering table: 
- Rectangular Tables:
- 4-6 people: 60-72 inches long
- 6-8 people: 72-96 inches long
- 8-10 people: 96-120 inches long
- Round Tables:
- 4 people: 36-48 inches in diameter
- 6 people: 48-60 inches in diameter
- 8 people: 60-72 inches in diameter
5. Preview Your Customer Solid Wood Table Layout
Use masking tape to outline your preferred table size and see how a custom solid wood dining table will fit before you order.
6. Plan for Comfortable Dining Table Height
Most dining tables are 28–30 inches high. For comfortable seating, leave 10–12 inches between the chair seat and the underside of the table.
Custom Dining Table Design Options
- Room shape: Custom table dimensions help narrow, open-concept, or unusual dining rooms feel balanced.
- Furniture layout: Plan space for sideboards, hutches, cabinets, benches, and chairs.
- Traffic flow: Keep walkways open so the dining room feels welcoming and easy to use.
Solid Hardwood Options for Amish Dining Tables
Georges Furniture handcrafts Amish-style North American hardwood dining tables from premium woods selected for beauty, strength, and long-term durability:
- Walnut dining tables: Rich, dark, elegant, and timeless.
- Cherry dining tables: Warm, reddish, graceful, and traditional.
- Maple dining tables: Light, smooth, durable, and clean-lined.
- Oak dining tables: Classic, strong, versatile, and family-friendly.
Choose your hardwood species, table size, extension leaves, edge profile, stain, finish, and design details with help from Georges Furniture craftsmen.
Why Choose Georges Furniture for Custom Amish Furniture in Lancaster County, PA?
- Lancaster County craftsmanship: Handmade by skilled woodworkers in a local woodworking shop. Signed and dated by its custom furniture maker.
- Built for your home: Custom dining tables sized for your room, seating needs, and style.
- 100% solid hardwood materials: Walnut, maple, oak, and cherry, sourced responsibly, sustainable and built for lasting value.
Custom Dining Table Delivery to York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Beyond
- Georges Furniture makes it easier to bring handcrafted Amish solid wood furniture into your home with delivery options for York, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and across the USA. Whether you are ordering a walnut, maple, oak, or cherry dining table, your custom piece can be built for your space and delivered beyond Lancaster County.
Request a Custom Amish Dining Table Consultation
Bring your vision to life with a custom Amish solid wood dining table handcrafted in Lancaster County. Contact Georges Furniture to schedule a consultation and create a hardwood table tailored to your home and family.
by Juanita | Jan 22, 2026 | Accessories, Customer Experience, Customization, Georges Difference, Gifts, Rocking Chairs
Ginny searched for quality furniture and began her journey on the internet looking for PA furniture maker. One of the first businesses to appear was a furniture maker in Lancaster County. Handmade, solid hardwood, made to order caught Ginny’s attention. After reviewing the website, the decision to take a trip from New Jersey to Georges Furniture brought them to a family-owned business nestled in the cornfields of Lancaster County.
Wheelchair accessible
Upon arriving at George’s, Ginny was greeted with a friendly face, eager to help. She experiences businesses in a different way. Ginny’s cheerful personality blesses those around her even though she is wheelchair bond. George’s showrooms are wheelchair accessible with a small ramp to the main showroom and ground level for the second showroom (Lower level of woodshop). The showrooms provide space between furniture displays to navigate and see the quality of handcraftsmanship. The bathroom in the main showroom is handicapped accessible. The woodshop tour is on the level with a small hill leading up to the shop entrance.
Dried – Handcrafted – Protected
Mike and Ginny enjoyed their purchases over the many years. A corner shelf and towel rack first appeared in their home. Then Mike gave dimensions for a bookcase TV stand. Each heirloom quality furniture is custom made from cherry, walnut, oak and hard maple wood that is dried properly, handcrafted and protected with a water-resistant finish.
“What I love is the quality of the finishes. When you run your hand over any of their pieces, they are so smooth.” -Ginny
Favorite masterpiece
Their beloved piece is the non-tipping rocking chair. It is not too heavy, has a long rock and chases away the stress of a long day. They enjoyed looking at all the different stain colors and choosing the best color for their home.
Ginny’s comments on each beloved pieces of furniture:
A beautiful corner shelf for my vase.
Custom designed TV Cabinet piece which my husband designed with the wonderful craftsmen at George’s furniture.
My husband loves his rocking chair I gave to him. Comfortable and beautiful.
The towel rack: A great way to display my decorative towels in my kitchen.
A custom designed beautiful bookcase which holds lots of treasures.
Informative woodshop Tour
A favorite part of their experience with Georges Furniture is the wood shop tour. Very informative. Loved seeing how the furniture is made. Will never look at furniture the same again. They learned how one craftsman picks out the requested type of wood, planes, joints and sands the wood to create a masterpiece. Then protects with a clear coat of water-resistant finish. Each piece is also signed and dated the artisan.
Brought a Friend
Ginny and Mike love finding quality furniture and brought their neighbor to experience Georges Furniture. If you have not experienced our woodshop tour, we love to explain how we take a rough sawn lumber – dry, handcraft, finish, sign and date- and create a custom heirloom furniture for your living space. Read the reviews of happy customers here. Come visit our showrooms and woodshop at a farm setting in Marietta, PA
by Juanita | Jul 22, 2025 | Ava Lee's History Corner, Customization, George's Furniture, Georges Difference, Rocking Chairs
A simple piece of wood ends up becoming a chair, a table, a part of your home. You can watch as it all comes together in a place that started someplace else almost 50 years ago.
Wood Shop in Elizabethtown
“It didn’t actually start right here. It started in a house in Elizabethtown, where we lived when we were first married,” explained George Martin’s widow, Ava Lee. George Martin had just returned from voluntary service in Honduras. He spent two years carving wood there, and back home in Pennsylvania, he kept at it. It was a hobby at first. “I knew he had an interest in it,” Ave Lee recalled. “He would have made an excellent farmer as well, but it just seemed God kept pushing us this way.”
In 1974, the Martins opened George’s Woodcrafts, now George’s Furniture, in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, near Marietta. “We want to just show people what we do, which is it’s a lost art,” Ave Lee said. “Not too many people do this.” You can walk through the wood shop. The first thing you’ll notice is the smell. “Right now, you’re smelling some of the white oak and maybe the walnut,” said craftsman Anthony Heisey, our tour guide.
From start to finish, one craftsman works on each piece.
“We built a business on custom tailoring, so if you bring a design sketched on a napkin, we’ll give it a shot,” Anthony said. “We have just larger machines that you commonly have in your basement. They are longer and wider and safer.” On average, a craftsman makes about two chairs a day. A dresser takes about four days and a large hutch about two weeks, and it’s all Pennsylvania-born. He said the saw mills in central Pennsylvania harvest from the Allegheny Forest area.
There’s no waste.
Wood scraps are used to heat the kiln. They create a lot of dust, so the vacuum system changes the air every 20 minutes. You’ll watch as they carve out the furniture, put it together, spray it. It goes into the stock room for delivery.
Our Famous Rocking Chair in Alaska.
“We shipped a rocking chair to Juneau, Alaska. It was ordered from the bottom of a gold mine,” Anthony said. The rocking chairs are rather famous. When George was 12, he went over backwards on one, hit his head and vowed that if he ever designed a rocking chair, it wasn’t going to tip over. George figured it out. So if you go, give it a try.
George died in 2010. His daughter and son-in-law are at the helm now, but George’s love of the art remains. “You can still hear George talking about how to make things, what not to do, and his standard stays with us here,(on our YouTube Channel) and we’ve held that for 50 years,” Anthony said.
WFMZ Channel 69 interview June 20, 2019, Karin Mallet, Updated Oct 1, 2019
by Juanita | Jun 17, 2025 | Customer Experience, Events, George's Furniture, Georges Difference, Tables
Our craft shows are a great way for customers to see, feel and touch the furniture. The “No More Water Marks” demonstration grabs the attention of the customers who can’t figure out why someone left water on this beautiful furniture.
Walnut Blend on Table with clear water resistant finish repelling water.
However, the water demonstration was not what caught Barry’s attention as he walked through the show.
Extension table magic
A 4 foot table that can extend up to 12 feet, caught Barry’s attention. The possibilities of what he could do to gather his whole family around one table, whirled around in his mind. A table to use everyday and during the holidays is an amazing idea that he could not pass up. The ease of extension increased the desire to add this table to his home. If he moved to a small house in the future, a smaller table would fit in the new home.
Amish furniture disappointments
Barry and Sabina love quality furniture and purchased Amish furniture in the past, however they were disappointed in the customer service and quality of the furniture.
“It is hard to find genuine people who want to help furnish your house with quality heirlooms,
not just selling you furniture.”
Visit the showroom/woodshop
The Shapiros kept the Georges Furniture brochure handy and eventually took a trip to see where the furniture is made, Marietta, PA in Lancaster County. George’s salespeople listened to Sabina’s furniture requests, walked through every detail of making handcrafted solid wood furniture and helped them decide the best combination of wood and stain to match their living area. They even gave a personalized wood shop tour where the craftsmen make one piece of furniture at a time and sign, date each piece.
In the showroom is where they first saw the corner cupboard, perfect for their home. An expandable table, 6 leaf storage cabinet and corner cupboard were delivered to their home. They have filled their table for a birthday party, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. Their fine China is neatly displayed in the corner cupboard protected from dust and accidental flying objects.
Return to see more quality
The Shapiros keep coming back to our Chantilly, VA craft shows to see us and dream about new furniture. The beauty of wood grain draws you in and the quality of outstanding. The joy of quality furniture is contagious. Barry and Sabina love to share the quality they found at Georges Furniture with their friends and family. Visit our website georgesfurniturepa.com for more quality or make the trip to see where our furniture is made and where dreams come true.
by Juanita | Nov 29, 2024 | Ava Lee's History Corner, Customer Experience, Furniture Care, George's Furniture, Georges Difference, Tables
Solid hardwood will receive dents and scratches over the years of hard use. While the dents can be raised out (see instructions for minimizing dents), the accumulation over time may require refinishing – complete sanding and a new finish. Some people like those “memory marks” on their table while others want to see their old table new again. Not only are Georges Furniture tables protected with a durable water-resistant finish they can be refinished after years of hard use.
Refinished
After 18+ years of enjoying their Georges Furniture table, Rob and Melinda wanted to refinish their beloved table. They also loved the two-tone style, where we used two different stains or a combination of two different woods and stains. While we refinished their table we added a different stain to parts of the table for a two-tone look.
Word of Mouth
How did Rob and Melinda first find out about George’s quality handcrafted furniture. A different way. Yes, word of mouth is a great way to share the discovery of quality handcrafted furniture in Lancaster County, PA. One day a contractor who was doing work at a post office started a conversation with Rob, who drove a truck with the postal service. Rob shared his quest for quality furniture and the contractor said you must check out Georges Furniture in Marietta, PA near Maytown.
Narrow Table Search
Rob and Melinda searched around the furniture stores for a narrow table to fit in their space. 38-inch-wide table is not an easy size to find. They wanted to use some money that their mother gave to them. It is hard to find quality craftsmanship and custom sizes.
Love at first sight
The minute they walked into George’s showroom they knew this was what she was looking for in size and quality. To be able to customize everything was unheard of in normal furniture stores. Rob and Melinda spent hours looking over the many options and decided on a perfect size, wood, leg style and edge. She gets compliments on the long overhang on the ends of her table. This space is great for the ladies who like to cross their legs. The tabletop needed to be wide enough to fit a meat platter and two dinner plates yet still small enough to fit in their dining area.
High Lights
Melinda remembers what impressed her most about Georges Furniture.
- Strength Test – 13 People standing on top of an extension table.
- A table that kept on extending – up to 21 feet.
- Wood shop tour
- Top quality craftsmanship
- Attention to detail
During deliver the delivery man accidentally scratched the table with his watch and took it back to be repaired. Melinda questioned why the table even needed to go back.
Customer Service
“The customer service is top notch.” -Melinda.
From visiting the showroom and wood shop to exploring the details of furniture on the order. We design, build and deliver our furniture. The service exceeds expectations.
